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Big Brother 17 – Thursday – September 3, 2015

Posted by John Klein III on September 5, 2015
Posted in: Reality Television. Tagged: BB17, Big Brother. Leave a comment

Who goes home, Meg or Julia?  Who goes home second, as this is Double Eviction night!

In Retro Big Brother, we are on Season Seven, Episode 18.  Getting closer to where I began!  We just got our HBO Go account figured out so I doubt we are going to rewatch BB8 like we thought.  I have a year’s worth of Last Week with John Oliver to catch up on!

This is Episode 32.

Julie Chen is making a big point of things being back – John from Jury, James from the block and Double Eviction.

I already know that Julia didn’t go home, proving this house is pretty dumb.

Veto Ceremony was Day 75!  AusTwins is a weird word to have people keep saying.

At least people were talking about getting Julia out, I guess that’s something.

I do like how Vanessa knows how to talk to Steve.  I also like how John’s go to topic to have fake conversations, with Steve, is dinosaurs.

I like how Chenbot reveals the news of the double eviction, but the houseguests just accept it.  The days of shock and awe are seasons ago.

Speeches were only okay, mostly shout outs.  I do like Julia mentioning Zingbot.

The Votes –

Liz – Meg
James – Julia
Steve – Meg (so that’s who is going home, shoot!)
John – Meg
It is official, Meg is gone
Austin – Meg

Meg takes it pretty well.  Julie and Meg’s interview was pretty decent.

HoH Comp.  A Quiz, wha!?!  True or False questions.  Production is trying to keep the first six alive in our memories, which is decent as I can’t remember them, at all.  Question One – False, they all got it right.  Question Two – False, Steve and James are out.  Idiots.

Question Three – True, Austin and John are out.  Twins fucking deserve to win this game, the rest of the house are idiots.  Going to be disappointing couple of weeks.

Question Four – False, both got it right though Julia changed her mind at the last moment.  Question Five – False – both got it right.  Question Six – False, both got it right.  Question Seven – here we go, True – Liz is HoH!  Goodbye James.

Liz nominates . . . James and John, shocker!

Live Veto Comp.  Only Vanessa isn’t playing.  Each gets two rolls, around a giant boomerang.  Steve is first, first ball off the track and the second one, goes the same.  Oh Steve.  John – first goes off the track, as does the second.  Austin – gets a 6 & 9 – 15, is the one to beat.  Vanessa has to clear the balls, for some reason.  Liz – first is 15 and the second goes off the track.  Julia, first is 13 & 4 – 17, she is the new front runner.  James, come on!  First goes off the track as does the second one.  Idiots.

Julia doesn’t use the Veto.  James’ speech is pretty much his good bye speech, which does seem to be silly, to force them to make two speeches.  John wants her to use the Veto on him.

Speeches.  James wants to keep playing, for his daughter.  John would also like to stay.

The Votes –

Austin – James
Julia – James
Vanessa – James
It is official, James is out
Steve – James

See, Austin’s Angels are all the votes, with Steve, so the Scamper Squad.  John doesn’t stand a chance, sadly.  Unless Steve can play it smart. He’s the current HoH, from what I’ve been told.

Julie Chen and James have a decent interview, as well.

. . .

These were the last pictures I were able to find, before I had to stop posting them.  I figured that Meg wasn’t going to make it to the end.

BB17 Meg Bikini

BB17 Meg Pink Bikini

BB17 Meg Yellow Top

Meg really does have a nice body.

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Nightcrawler Volume Two Issue 12

Posted by John Klein III on September 4, 2015
Posted in: Review. Tagged: 2015, Claremont, Nauck, Nightcrawler, Rosenberg - Rachelle. Leave a comment

Nightcrawler V2 12

Writer Chris Claremont

Artist Todd Nauck

Color Artist Rachelle Rosenberg

Letterer VC’s Travis Lanham

Nightcrawler V2 12 Kitty Mention A Nightcrawler V2 12 Kitty Mention B

Apparently, since issue nine, Nightcrawler has been fighting the Warwolves, with his allies – Bess, Rico and Ziggy.

Nightcrawler recalls how the Warwolves were one of the constant threats Excalibur dealt with.  One of the memories is from the instance where they tried to take over Kitty’s body.  The Warwolves main attack is that they kill a human and then they, somehow, put on that person’s skin.

The Warwolves are working for Tullamore Voge, who has captured like a hundred children.

Kurt is fighting with all of his might, this is the final issue of his second ongoing (he has had two miniseries as well) and the stakes are pretty high.  Kurt is also movitated as he is tired of losing his friends, as he has lost – Amanda Sefton, Wolverine and Jean Grey.  For some odd reason, he is still missing Jean.

Bess tells Rico and Ziggy to run and hide.  Rico realizes that they can hide but all of these other children, don’t have that option and they decide to go after Tullamore Voge, as Kurt and Bess can’t do that, as they are busy fighting the Warwolves.

Bess tells Kurt about Rico’s plan.  Kurt wishes they could help with that plan but they are barely surviving the fight with the Warwolves.

Kurt tries to get the Warwolves to fight each other, while two of them are slowly draining Bess’ life.

Over with Tullamore Voge, he sends out a goon to fight Rico but he is so mad that he makes short work of the goon.  The Bamfs teleport Tullamore Voge into a cell that is in the Blackbird.

Nightcrawler V2 12 Kitty Pryde Excalibur 2 Flashback

Poor Kurt, is out numbered and he knows Bess is losing her fight with the other Warwolves.

We get a flashback to Excalibur Volume Two Issue 2, where Kitty’s powers make it hard for the Warwolves to drain her life and wear her skin like a puppet.  Which is such a great scene to have replayed!

This gives the Warwolves pause, and Kurt starts to chain them together.  After this, Kurt rushes over to Bess’ limp body and begs for her to come back to him.  She comes around and makes out with him.

Kurt and the gang have returned the children, that they could, back to their families.  Tullamore Voge and his goons, killed some of the childrens’ family so those orphans are going to live with the X-Men.

I really like the scene with Kurt, Betsy and Rachel, as he catches them up on what has been happening.  During the panels, Bess and Kurt had a romantic getaway.  She is left him, to pursue finding her former teammates, the Crimson Pirates.

The Issue ends with Kurt, Rico, Ziggy and Rachel are one team and the Bamfs are another team, and all of them enjoy playing a game of baseball.  Oh Claremont, I do adore you.

This has been a very fun twelve issues.

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Big Brother 17 – Wednesday – September 2, 2015

Posted by John Klein III on September 3, 2015
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Who plays in the Veto?  Will the winner use the Veto?  If so, who goes up?

In Retro Big Brother, we are on Season 7 Episode 17 – still no Neil Patrick Harris.

If CBS Access is right, this is the 575th episode of Big Brother!  I doubt they will do anything on the show to reflect that.  Season 18 will get Episode 600, pretty early in their season.

I’m not sure who I will be more upset with leaving, James or Meg.  Narrator called them, FriendMance, poor James.

Liz holding Austin’s hand, under the table, is so gross!

Day 72, the Nominations.

Vanessa talking to James, is it how fast she tries to talk, that I find so exhausting?

Meg keeps crying in the Have Not room.

Players for Veto –

Vanessa – Julia
James – Liz
Meg – Austin

Of course, they choose the other side of the house.  Of course

Vanessa keeps crying about how successful she has been, with getting people out of the house.  If it was me, I would be using that to be making my final speech.  The person sitting next to her, is going to have to say that they made lesser moves.

I thought James was doing a Batman impression (I was distracted looking up how many more seasons of Big Brother there will be, one more – guaranteed, in 2016 – Big Brother 18).  But my wife told me he was pretending to be Audrey.

I can’t believe this is Episode 31.

Poor James’ daughter, Bailey, gets her drunken origins told on national television.  Brianna is the baby mama.  She is pretty cute.

John is the Veto Host.  Veto is an old school game show.  Steve is co-host!

The comp, they have to hide Veto cards and the others will look for them.  It doesn’t sound great.

They each then get two minutes to look for the others’ cards.  Meg doesn’t find one.  Austin doesn’t find one, but wrecks the house, unnecessarily.  James doesn’t find one, but also wrecks the house.  Who is cleaning this up?  For the past few years, Production has done this, where the house gets wrecked.  Julia doesn’t find anything.  Liz also doesn’t find anything.  Vanessa finds the first Veto card!

Round 2.  Austin doesn’t find one.  Did Meg not go?  Liz didn’t find one.  James is just messing up the house.  Julia finds a Veto card!

Round 3.  Liz doesn’t like the house being such a mess, she has OCD.  She doesn’t find a card.  Meg finds a Veto card!  I honestly can’t remember who is finding which cards.

Round 4.  Vanessa doesn’t find a second one.  Austin doesn’t find one.  James tries to cover his card, so his isn’t found.  Austin’s isn’t either.  James does find another one.

Round 5.  Julia doesn’t find one.  Austin doesn’t find one.  James doesn’t either.  Vanessa is close to finding James, in the living room.  She did it!  So Austin wins Veto.

Vanessa – Eliminates Liz
Julia – Eliminates Vanessa
Meg – Eliminates Julia
James – Eliminates Meg
Vanessa – Eliminates Austin

John hosts while Steve does the physical work

Due to the edit, it looked like she found James’ Veto Card.  Will James used the Veto to take off Meg?

Vanessa has to figure out who she can sit next to Meg, as anyone is a bigger threat.

James is gearing up to talk to Vanessa.

Vanessa wants to put up Julia, but AusTwins want John put up.

James tries to talk to Vanessa, but she gets super offended, so quickly.  oooof

Veto Meeting.  James uses Veto on himself.  Vanessa nominates . . . Julia, this could get interesting!  The house needs to get Julia out of there!  That’s the smartest move there is!

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CSBG’s 2015 Top Marvel DC Characters, The Voting

Posted by John Klein III on September 2, 2015
Posted in: Voting, Websites. Tagged: CSBG. Leave a comment

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2015/08/29/vote-for-the-top-100-dc-and-marvel-characters-of-all-time/

Brian Cronin is doing another fun poll, this time – figuring out who are the Top Ten Characters of 2015, at both Marvel and DC.

Voting stops on September 30th and results starting sometime after NYCC, October 9th or so.

Here are my picks –

Marvel, my favorite

1. Kitty Pryde
2. Lockheed
3. Illyana Rasputin, Magik
4. Nightcrawler
5. Rachel Summers
6. Doug Ramsey, Cypher
7. Ben Reilly, Scarlet Spider
8. Arcade
9. Cyclops
10. Doctor Doom

DC, the other one

1. Chase Cameron
2. Wally West, Flash
3. Kyle Rayner, Green Lantern
4. Batman
5. Zantanna
6. Dinah Lance, Black Canary
7. Oliver Queen, Green Arrow
8. Barbara Gordon
9. Martian Manhunter
10. Lex Luthor

I’m more invested in the Marvel side of the list.

 

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Bloodshot 12

Posted by John Klein III on September 1, 2015
Posted in: Homage, Review. Tagged: 141, Andrasofszky - Kalman, Harbinger Wars, Kitson - Barry, Reber - Brian, Swierczynski - Duane, Valiant, Waite - Matthew, Zircher - Patrick. Leave a comment

Bloodshot 12

Writer Duane Swierczynski

Penciler Barry Kitson

Inkers Stefano Gaudiano with Barry Kitson

Color Art Brian Reber

Letters Rob Steen

Cover Dated June 2013

Cover Artists Kalman Andrasofszky, Patrick Zircher and Matthew Waite

To start, I don’t have much experience, that I know of, with Valiant.  I enjoyed that first trade of Sonar, the Solar Man.  So I don’t now Bloodshot and there is a Harbinger Wars banner on the cover but I can’t tell if anything in this issue builds towards that or is dealing with it.  Also, and I sort of like this policy, there are no ads in this issue, besides house ads.  Apparently, the summer of Valiant is back, so there are a few first issues coming out.

Luckily there is a recap that might cover the previous eleven issues, from the three paragraphs.  I’ll try to summarize with what takes place in the issue itself.  Project Rising Spirit (PRS) Frankenstein monster-ed Bloodshot into existence, so he can be the perfect weapon.  He has a healing factor, due to these nanites, that also give him – strength, speed and control over computers.  He has no memory – which is when I start getting the Wolverine vibe, Bloodshot even has artificial memories!  His main purpose is to collect psiots – super powered children.

HIs former handler, Kuretich, freed Bloodshot of his programming.  The nanites go by the name, Goldie Boy, and Bloodshot made a friend of EMT Kara Murphy.  Together, they attacked the facility that created him, and escaped with a group of psiots. They all have been on the run ever since.  The Harbinger Foundation founder, Toyo Harada, who is also a telekinetic and telepath – of course – comes after the group.  Bloodshot fought Harada (this paragraph is a tad confusing, I imagine it is explaining the past four or five issues), and was badly hurt and his healing factor was maxed out.  Luckily, he had a protocol that created a pulse that knocked Harada out and Bloodshot, Murphy and the psiots got away, which is where this issue picks up from.

But first, we have a flashback.  Project Rising Spirit Facility.  Nevada Desert.  Years Ago.  Kuretich is saying farewell to Bloodshot, before his programming goes live.

Now.  Kuretich is trying to kill Bloodshot, as he wants to use the psiots (a word I seem to not be able to memorize) for his own means.  Bloodshot’s limbs have been cut (he is currently missing his left arm and right leg) and his already taxed healing factor is barely functional.

Three Hours Earlier (Revenge style!).  Bloodshot wants his revenge!  Murphy wants him to abandon that goal and take the psiots to Las Vegas, where they will be safe.  The kids are getting hungry.

Quantum and Wood’s first issue is coming out, I heard the series was very funny.

Murphy asks Bloodshot to locate the nearest place for food and he directs them to Gangemi Meat Solutions, which does not thrill the children, at all.  Of course, this is all a set up as PRS has caught up to the group.

X-O Manowar issue 15 is coming out.  I played a very difficult video game of him and Iron Man together – which I wonder how the copyright on that worked.  It just wasn’t any fun.

Bloodshot is inside the meat processing plant and the military is gassing those inside the car, so that they fall asleep.   Bloodshot is doing against the military guys but they start cutting deeply into his limbs.

Inside Bloodshot’s Mental Space.  Since Goldie Boy is gone, Bloodshot has to manually force the nanonites to perform their tasks.

Bloodshot issue zero is coming out.  He also has a Bloodshot and H.A.R.D.Corps issue 14 coming out.  He must be a big deal in the Valiant Universe.

Bloodshot gets his nanonites to shut down the power in the center, so the kids are able to break out of the vehicle.

Bloodshot finally regains his senses and kills the soldiers and Kuretich.  I like one of the cows going, moo?

Bloodshot kills the militiary guards on the outside and the issue ends with him deciding that the children are more important and will take them to Las Vegas.  He also gives them steaks to eat.

Eternal Warrior 1 is coming out, issue 13 of Bloodshot states to bet on Bloodshot.

Letters from Keith Etheridge / Comic Creator Robert Venditti and Andrew from Texas.

Back cover adveritses – Harbinger Wars 4 / Harbinger 14 / Bloodshot 13 / Archer & Armstrong 11 / X-O Manowar 15 and Shadowman 8.

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Big Brother 17 – Sunday – August 30, 2015

Posted by John Klein III on August 31, 2015
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Who officially wins HoH?  Vanessa!  Which Juror returns?  John!  Does this Endurance challenge make Big Brother history?  Yes!  In a good way?  No!

In Retro Big Brother, we are on Season Seven, Episode Eight.

I haven’t really missed any of these Jurors.

Julia is out first.
Steve is second
Meg is third, so fast!
James is fourth out
Liz is out fifth, after getting the disc she was standing on, goes up her butt.

The only ones left are Vanessa and the four Jurors.

Did Becky not get a DR session?

Jackie is first Juror out and sixth, over all
Becky is out seventh, she does get a moment in the DR
Shelly is out, eighth and John is officially back!

Who drops next, John or Vanessa?

I forgot that Super Mario Make came out, it is a proper Mario game, but with a gimmick, right?  We love Mario games, over here.  Well, the proper ones.  Parties and Sports, not as much.  Oh, well, we do enjoy the Kart games.

Vanessa yells at John, that he is safe but he tries to hold on.  Vanessa wants to hear from her girlfriend, Mel.  He drops.  Vanessa is HoH, they are not telling us the time frame but it was barely ten minutes.  We are 14 minutes into the episode, so we essentially saw the whole competition.

I’m so glad that John is back.

John and Steve really are back on good terms.  John is also going to start working Vanessa.  Vanessa has to get AusTwins out of the house!  One of those three are definitely going to win this season.

Before Eviction, Steve and Vanessa made up.  Steve says they are the Detonators of the season, which means they are going to implode, soon.

Meg, who is 25, gets to address the Grand Ma nickname.  She gets hurt, a lot, in the house.

Vanessa wants to go after Meg and James.  She convinces AusTwins that it is okay to not to go for John and Steve, this week.

Austin makes his and Liz’s relationship official.  He would like to date her, outside of the house.  This won’t last.  So now he isn’t dating the other girl anymore.  Which is still pretty shitty.  Liztin, is their couple name.  The worst

To get back as James, Julia is going to prank Austin – as he is an easier target.  Now that she has earned experience, she is ready for the Final Boss – James.

Vanessa confronts Meg and James.  James volunteers to be a pawn for Meg, which makes her cry.  James recalls that he made a deal with Vanessa (prior to Final Seven), but doesn’t go to remind her.

Nominations – Meg and James!  So James should have reminded her.

. . .

Big Brother 17 ends on September 23rd, so for my comic reading visitors, the Big Brother posts shall end soon.  For my pure Big Brother visitors, I hope you’ve been enjoying the comic reviews and keep coming around.

Thanks to everyone for coming when you do, I really appreciate it!

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Big Brother 17 – Thursday – August 27, 2015

Posted by John Klein III on August 30, 2015
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Who goes home, John or Steve?  Well, John does but he comes right back for the shortest endurance competition, of all time – barely over ten minutes!  Let’s try to get excited but Sunday’s show isn’t going to be grand.

Screw it, Vanessa won HoH, so it is going to be another sleeper week.

Episode 29.

In Retro Big Brother, we are on the final episode of Season Six!

Day 68.

Vanessa crying again.

Liz confronts John about blowing up their games, or attempting to do so.  He thought he was going home and he thought that alliance was over.  Liz plays dumb but he’s smart so it does make sense.  He’s playing an honest game.

Someone needs to get AusTwins out of the house or they are going to win this nonsense.

Steve doesn’t have an easy time talking to Vanessa.  Once she starts crying, I lose all interest.  Shame that John is no longer working with Steve.

The Twins want to work with John but I wouldn’t trust it.

We go home to James’ drinking buddies.  They also don’t know that winning Big Brother isn’t a prank.  There isn’t many people in that bar, watching Big Brother.  James has a cat, Gizmo.  We know James has a crush on Meg, as he has said it!

Speeches.  John admits that they are both big dorks.  Steve kissed Meg in a game of Spin the Bottle!  Good for Steve!  Apparently, it was awkward.

The Votes, apparently they were still indecisive

Meg – John
James – John
Vanessa – John
It is Official, he is out of there!  For now
Julia – John
Liz – John

Chen can’t read a cue card tonight

There were some fun hallway interactions.  Vanessa reeling in James, Liz and Julia ignoring each other.

Zingbot’s Twitter page has gone silent.  I thought we would get a few more, on Big Brother nights, at least.

Can Julie Chen ruin an interview with John?  Yes, she can.  She should just get out of his way.  John and Steve are still cool.  John wants to go after Meg.

Jury House.  Shelly and Jackie get along well.  They are surprised to see Becky.  Becky got an infection under her toe!  What are the odds!?!

The Four Jurors get to compete, along with the other houseguests.

What design is on Julia’s butt of her shorts?  It isn’t very good.

Meg has a joker smile!

Next Thursday, another Double Eviction, which makes sense as they have another returning houseguest.

Steve and Julia are out, and Meg falls on live television!

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Daily Bugle 6

Posted by John Klein III on August 29, 2015
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Daily Bugle 6 New Fantastic Four

Cover Dated February 2007

This was a clever idea Marvel tried, to promote future storylines as if they were newspaper stories.  I own this one and the second issue with the Astonishing X-Men on the cover.

Storm and Black Panther are joining the team as, after Civil War, Reed and Sue wanted to work on their marriage.

Marvel Zombies Army of Darkness 1

Apparently, I am keeping this due to the article regarding the upcoming Army of Darkness v Marvel Zombies.  Which apparently is enough to get me to keep a comic.

. . .

With this, we conclude Fantastic Four Month!  This is our last Event Month (that I can tell) for the year.  There will be my anual Anniversary Posts in November but that’s about it.

I need to work on how I end these Month events, as Ant-Man’s didn’t end on a high note either.

So look forward to a slew of Comic Reviews in September and October!  We have a lot to go through, as my Comics To Be Reviewed, are way prior to Secret Wars 2015 1 and the fifth issue of that series is out already.

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Fantastic Four Volume Three Issue 8

Posted by John Klein III on August 28, 2015
Posted in: Review. Tagged: Claremont, Conversations, Fantastic Four, Larroca, Liquid!, Lockheed. Leave a comment

Fantastic Four V3 8

Writer Chris Claremont

Penciler Salvador Larroca

Inks Art Thibert

Colors Liquid!

Letters RS / Comiccraft / DL

Cover Dated August 1998

I own this for the awesome chess set, but we will get to that later.

Issue opens with Reed Richards, Invisible Woman and Thing fighting off the Captain Britain Corps, minus one important one.

There is an ad for Small Soldiers, a decent little film.  This is one of those movies, with a super young Kirsten Dunst, that when I see her nowadays, she reminds me of how old Tommy Lee Jones must be these days.

The Human Torch shows up, wanting a set-rep but there isn’t any time.  Franklin is annoyed that this fight over him is even happening.  He kick starts his family’s powers that they are working on a massive power surge.  Johnny goes supernova in the sky and burns hotter than ever before.

Johnny grabs Gatecrasher and learns who the key factors are.  Human Torch demands an audience with Opal Luna-Saturnyne, the Omniversal Mastrex.  We see Roma is sitting at a chess board.  The previous people who met with Saturnyne, was the cosmic identities – Eternity and Infinity.  So Johnny knows how big of a deal this is.

Fantastic Four V3 8 Kitty Lockheed Marvel Chess Set

Now, that is a Marvel Chess Set I would buy!

I wonder how the script was written.  Did Claremont specify which characters to feature?

CC : Larroca, you may include anyone you want, just make sure you have the Fantastic Four and Kitty Pryde.
SL : Chris, may I call you Chris?
CC : No
SL : Chris, how do I make sure it is Kitty Pryde?
CC : You beautifully colored artist you, you put Lockheed on her shoulders and call it good.

Or something like that.

I like the idea of Saturnyne and Roma being used here.  I’m sure they should be used in those Incursions in the New Avengers stories by Hickman.

I really enjoy seeing Human Torch stepping up and stepping up and confronting Saturnyne and Roma.  He always seems to have one foot ready to go out of the door.  Thing talks a big game but he’s never really going to leave.

Franklin has given all of his family members a power boost.  Torch’s Nova Flame was as strong as a sun burst but now it is as hot as the sun itself.  Reed can stretch from the Earth to the Moon.  Sue can crush tanks now.  Thing is small moon destroying strong.

Not to mention that Franklin created Counter-Earth and sustained it for a year.  Good thing he is being raised by loving parents.

Saturnyne is tempted to destroy Earth, to keep Franklin’s powerset under control.  Johnny makes a bargain that the Fantastic Four will watch Franklin and if they fail, all five of them will be prisoners of Saturnyne.  The day is saved!

We learn from Gatecrasher that the real New York City was never in jeopardy of the Fantastic Four / Captain Britain Corps battle.  It looked like the Corps appeared in front of them but really, the team showed up in front of the Corps, as they were in a pocket dimension.  Pretty clever!

There are a few pages of the abandoned Jose Landronn Fantastic Four / Inhumans project.  He is still my favorite Cable artist, as his and Joe Casey’s run on the title is still the only readable Cable solo title.

Letters this issue are from – Brian Elliott, of unknown whereabouts, Frank Sutherland of Stafford, VA, Scot W. Myers of Davidson, NC and Steve Wissinger of Cairo, IL.

Issue Nine promises to have a classic old school team-up of Spider-Man and the Human Torch.  I remember it being pretty good.

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Big Brother 17 – Wednesday – August 26, 2015

Posted by John Klein III on August 27, 2015
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Who wins PoV?  How amazing is ZingBot?  Totally, is the answer to that!  Will they use the Veto?

Is there a reason why ZingBot couldn’t be used for a week, a la BBTakeover?  Since he’s an extension of Production?

In Retro Big Brother, we are on Season Six, Episode 26 – Will Howie or April go home?  Most likely, Howie.

Steve and John want to win the Veto, but Steve – you both can’t win veto.

James climbs into Julie’s closet to give a giant spook!  John and Vanessa are so scared!

Picking Veto Players –

Austin – Vanessa (boo!)
John – Meg
Steve – Julia (right after she complained about never being picked)

Zingbot!

I love Zingbot so much!

He was about to fall over a chair but Julia saved him.

Zingbot is newly single, he got an upgrade – Zingbot 9000!  He’s on twitter, me too!  @jackalsiii @zingbotofficial

James – He’s heard Meg is taking him some place, very special – the friendzone.  She’s out of his league
Liz – He’s confused, she’s less attractive, less intelligent, less charming – oh wait, that’s just Julia
Steve – What’s less cool than a trombone, who cries for his mommy?  Nothing!
Will someone take out the trash, it stinks in here.  That’s just Austin
Meg – You’re New York attitutde is very Sex in the City, her gameplan is Sucks in the City
John – 5 out of 5 dentist agree, the only thing less attractive than his laugh is his back hair
Vanessa – She’s been playing a masterful game, assuming that game is the crying game!
Liz – She’s become such an important part of his life, is she more excited to meet his Mother, Father or his girlfriend.

So great!  Poor Zingbot is single, but what about his baby!

Liz finally addresses the Austin / girlfriend thing.  He’s been dating her for 18 months.  Neither one is great, just break up with whoever you are with, before joining the house.

I do feel for John’s comments, as I’m a hairy guy and that isn’t great to have pointed out.  James had a good rebuttal too.

The Comp.  There is popcorn and candy and a television set – for James and Liz to watch.  They are in Zingbot’s Bachelor Pad.  He’s been using Zinder.

We were just talking about how the ‘merged faces’ were a stable of this show but has gone away in the past several years.  Not since Rachel dominated in it.

Julia gets to watch the rest.  Julia got 4:45:7.  Steve is next.  Steve was on the last one but couldn’t beat Julia’s time.  Austin gets stuck on the third face, like the other two.  He kept guessing Liz’s features, when it wasn’t her, at all.  Vanessa is up next.  Vanessa got 2:51, so she is save.

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John is up next.  He doesn’t complete it.  Meg is up last.  Meg can’t point out her own nose, so funny!  It is what has everyone stuck on.  She also doesn’t complete.

Vanessa talks to John, she clearly isn’t going to use it on him.  He tells her that he isn’t holding grudges about Becky or Clay.  Was he even close to Clay?  John knows that the house wants to keep Steve.

John tells Vanessa about the plan to get her out of the house, last week.

People are just now talking about the concept of John coming right back, that’s who I want back!

I decided to start following the winners of Big Brother.  Drew Daniel went to jail, and doesn’t have a Twitter page.  Maggie Ausburn is also not on Twitter.

Vanessa is confronting John, he is running out of breath.  She’s so exhausting.  She’s crying!

Surprisingly, Boogie isn’t on Twitter either.  I’m not surprised Adam Jasinski isn’t on Twitter, as he is a horrible human being.  One of the reasons why I didn’t want to do this before.

Speeches, Steve knows she won’t use it on him.  John has some fun.  Vanessa tries to explain why she is so mad.  She burns Steve’s game.

Vanessa won’t be using veto.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_brother/news/1002470/

That link has the winners.

I wasn’t going to add Eddie McGee, as Season One isn’t even the real Big Brother but he isn’t on Twitter, so that’s okay.  15 winners, and only four are not on Twitter, that’s pretty impressive.

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